coil in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for coil in the English»French Dictionary

I.coil [Brit kɔɪl, Am kɔɪl] N

1. coil:

coil (of rope, barbed wire)

rouleau m

coil (of electric wire)

bobine f

coil (of smoke)

volute f

coil (of hair)

boucle f

coil (of snake)

anneau m

2. coil (of petrol engine):

coil

bobine f

3. coil (contraceptive):

coil

stérilet m

to have a coil fitted

se faire poser un stérilet

II.coil [Brit kɔɪl, Am kɔɪl] VB trans

coil hair, rope, wire:

coil

enrouler

III.coil [Brit kɔɪl, Am kɔɪl] VB intr

coil river, procession:

coil

serpenter

to coil upwards smoke:

monter en volutes

IV.to coil itself VB refl

to coil itself refl:

to coil itself

s'enrouler (round autour de)

winding coil N ELEC

winding coil

bobine f

coil spring N

coil spring

ressort m hélicoïdal

I.coil up VB [Brit kɔɪl -, Am kɔɪl -] (coil up)

coil up snake:

coil up

se lover

II.coil up VB [Brit kɔɪl -, Am kɔɪl -] (coil [sth] up, coil up [sth])

coil up rope, hosepipe, wire:

coil up

enrouler

ignition coil N

ignition coil

bobine f d'allumage

induction coil N

induction coil

bobine f d'induction

Translations for coil in the French»English Dictionary

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colombin

coil

serpentin

coil

stérilet

coil, IUD, intrauterine device spec

lover

to coil

se lover serpent, anguille:

to coil itself up

coil in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for coil in the English»French Dictionary

I.coil [kɔɪl] N

1. coil (wound spiral):

coil

rouleau m

coil of rope

pli m

2. coil inf MED → IUD

II.coil [kɔɪl] VB intr

coil snake:

to coil around sth

s'enrouler autour de qc

III.coil [kɔɪl] VB trans

coil

enrouler

to coil oneself around sth

s'enrouler autour de qc

See also IUD

IUD [ˌaɪju:ˈdi:] N

IUD MED abbreviation of intra-uterine device

IUD

stérilet m

induction coil N ELEC

induction coil

bobine f d'induction

ignition coil N

ignition coil

bobine f d'allumage

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to shuffle off this mortal coil iron hum

mourir

Translations for coil in the French»English Dictionary

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se lover

to coil up

bobine d'allumage

coil

enrouler

to coil

ressort à boudin/lame

coil/leaf spring

coil Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to coil around sth

s'enrouler autour de qc

to coil oneself around sth

s'enrouler autour de qc

to shuffle off this mortal coil iron hum

mourir

coil Glossary of Refrigeration Technology courtesy of GEA Bock GmbH

Translations for coil in the French»English Dictionary

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bobine d'électro-aimant

magnetic coil

thermostat de tête de bobine

coil end thermostat

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The young, leafless stems are light green and coiled, the coils becoming looser with age.

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The coils might be meant to protect from tiger bites, perhaps literally, but probably symbolically.

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Many such tv's had the copper deflection coils removed by unknown persons while sitting on streets, presumably for copper's recycle price.

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The inflorescence is a one-sided curving or coiling cyme of many bell-shaped flowers each just a few millimeters long.

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If the plasma rotation needed to stabilize the resistive wall mode can not be maintained, feedback stabilization with external coils will be required.

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This arrangement allowed the potter to turn the vessel under construction, rather than walk around it to add coils of clay.

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When a rider is mounted, the free end is coiled and attached to the saddle.

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Coiled coils contain a highly characteristic sequence motif known as a heptad repeat, in which the motif repeats itself every seven residues along the sequence.

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In these units, the magnet itself sits behind the four coils and magnetises the cores of all four coils.

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Coiling is either gyroconic or evoluute with a slight dorsal impression.

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